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<p class="p1">Turkish, Jordanian, and Iraqi officials have stated that <strong>Iran</strong> actually provided advanced notice several days before its drone and missile attack on Israel.</p>
<p class="p1">However, U.S. officials have a different take, saying that Tehran did not warn Washington and that their intention was to inflict significant damage.</p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Recall that Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles on Saturday in a <strong>retaliatory strike</strong> after a suspected Israeli strike on its embassy compound in Syria.</span></p>
<p class="p1">There’s a relief that most of the drones and missiles were intercepted before reaching Israeli territory. However, it’s disheartening to hear that a young girl was critically injured.</p>
<p class="p1">The incident has understandably raised concerns about the possibility of further escalation.</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Sunday that Iran gave neighbouring countries and Israel’s ally, the United States 72 hours’ notice it would launch the strikes.</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said it had spoken to both Washington and Tehran before the attack, adding that it had conveyed messages as an intermediary to be sure reactions were proportionate.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“Iran said the reaction would be a response to Israel’s attack on its embassy in Damascus and that it would not go beyond this.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“We were aware of the possibilities. The developments were not a surprise,” said a Turkish diplomatic source.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">One senior official in U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration denied Amirabdollahian’s statement, saying Washington did have contact with Iran through Swiss intermediaries but did not get notice 72 hours in advance.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“That is absolutely not true,” the official said.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“They did not give a notification, nor did they give any sense of … ‘these will be the targets, so evacuate them.’”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Tehran sent the United States a message only after the strikes began and the intent was to be “highly destructive” said the official, adding that Iran’s claim of a widespread warning may be an attempt to compensate for the lack of any major damage from the attack.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“We received a message from the Iranians as this was ongoing, through the Swiss.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“This was basically suggesting that they were finished after this, but it was still an ongoing attack.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“So that was (their) message to us,” the U.S. official said.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Iraqi, Turkish, and Jordanian officials each said Iran had provided early warning of the attack last week, including some details.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The attack with drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles risked causing major casualties and escalating the conflict.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">U.S. officials said on Friday and Saturday they expected an imminent attack and urged Iran against one, with Biden tersely saying his only message to Tehran was: “Don’t.”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Two Iraqi sources, including a government security adviser and a security official, said Iran had used diplomatic channels to inform Baghdad about the attack at least three days before it happened.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The exact timing of the attack was not disclosed at that point, but was passed to Iraqi security and military authorities hours before the strikes, allowing Baghdad to close its airspace and avoid fatal accidents.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“The government clearly understood from the Iranian officials that the U.S. military in Iraq was also aware of the attack in advance,” said the Iraqi security official.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">A senior Jordanian official said Iran had summoned Arab envoys in Tehran on Wednesday to inform them of their intention to carry out an attack, though it did not specify the timing.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Asked if Iran had also given details about the targets and kind of weapons to be used, the Jordanian source did not respond directly but indicated that that was the case.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">An Iranian source briefed on the matter said Iran had informed the U.S. through diplomatic channels that included Qatar, Turkey, and Switzerland about the scheduled day of the attack, saying it would be conducted in a manner to avoid provoking a response.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">How far escalation can be avoided remains in question.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Biden has told Israel the United States will not join any Israeli retaliation, the U.S. official said.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">However, Israel is still weighing its response and will “exact the price from Iran in the fashion and timing that is right for us”, Israeli minister Benny Gantz said on Sunday. </span></p>
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